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The flower of paradise : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music

There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres-one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular-both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms-Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian chant, and love songs and lyrics from medieval courtly song. Yet despite their obvious similarities, the two musical and poetic traditions have rarely been studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes.Read more...

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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; A Note on Texts and Translations; 1. Introduction: Devotion to the Virgin and Earthly Love; 2. The Assumption Story in Two Thirteenth-Century Motet Families; 3. Springtime and Renewal over the In seculum Tenor; 4. Guillaume Dufay's Vergene bella, the Cantilena Motet, and the Italian Lyric Tradition; 5. Walter Frye's Ave regina caelorum in Musical and Visual Culture; 6. Mary, De tous biens plaine; 7. Comme femme desconfortée and the Redemptive Power of the Virgin's Sorrow; Works Cited; Index.

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David J. Rothenberg.

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In spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book examines the convergence of these two styles in polyphonic music and its broader poetic, artistic, and devotional context from c.1200-c.1500.Read more...

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The flower of paradise is a very accessible study that is of undoubted relevance to anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance music, culture or liturgy. Catherine Bradley, Early Music